Make Delicious Donuts Using P Mark Maida

There can’t be a better way to relieve stress than gorging on delicious donuts and sipping your favourite coffee. The crusty, puffy and soggy donuts will instantly put a smile on kids and adults . Now you don’t have to run to your nearest donut outlet to eat it, as you can easily make fresh donuts at home that are delicious to boot.

Prep Time: 6-10 minutes

Cook Time: 6-7 hour

Serves: 4

Ingredients

• Refined Flour 3¼ cups +
• Milk 1 teaspoon
• Fresh yeast dissolved in luke warm water 15 grams
• Sugar ¼ cup
• Milk ¾ cup
• Butter softened 110 grams
• Oil to deep fry
• Powdered sugar for coating

Method

Step 1

Mix yeast in luke warm water and set aside covered for 25-30 minutes in a warm place. This is done to activate the yeast. There would be bubbles in the mixture which would indicate that the yeast is activated.

Step 2

Sift the flour and salt into a bowl. Make a well in the center of the mixture, add activated yeast mixture, sugar and milk. Break egg and add and mix well. Add butter and mix well. Knead this mixture into a soft dough. Cover the bowl with a muslin cloth and set aside for 1- 1½ hours.

Step 3

Knock back (mash up or knead to get rid of air bubbles) the dough, dust with refined flour and refrigerate for 4-5 hours. Knock back the dough again. Roll out the dough to about one inch thickness. Stamp out one and a half inch rounds with a doughnut cutter.

Step 4

Heat sufficient oil in a wok/kadai. Deep-fry the doughnuts on medium heat till golden brown.

Step 5

Take powdered sugar in a bowl and coat the fried doughnuts in it. You can even glaze them in sugar syrup or dip in melted dark chocolate and sprinkle with fritters, however you like it.

Source- Sanjeev Kapoor